WESTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 January 1918, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

ENEMY RAID REPULSED.

ROULERS AND MENUFT UOMB'ED

Received 8.45.

LONDON, Jan 2

Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy attempted a raid early in the morning north-cast of Loos, but was repulsed! Nineteen hundred and eighteen Germans were prisonered during? Ugcembpr. >. Our ■ a.qr-oplanes last night dropped one hundred bombs on billets in the neighbourhood of Roulers and Menin. Several direct hits were observed.

NEW’YEAR' AT THE FRONT.

DEADLY GREETINGS

LONDON, Jan 1

New Year was ushered in according to custom. At midnight groups of batteries put over salvoes of high explosives, which burst a dozen times, intimating twelve o’clock. Other gunners joined punctually in the firing, indicating the numerals 1918. After this a bouquet of gas shells was sent speeding to bid Fritz a happy hJew Year. This form of greeting was resented in some places, a quarrel between “heavies” blazing up. GERMANS’ VIOLENT ATTACK. TRENCHES CAPTURED BUT LOST. LONDON, January 1. British headquarters reports: The enemy’s attack yesterday northwest of La Yacqueric was carried out after a fierce bombardment. The attack was concentrated on a half-mile front. Waves advanced under cover of flammenwerfers and parties swarmed into a short length of trenches on the right Elsewhere they were unable to rush the parapet in the face of heavy mac-hine-gun and rifle-fire. Whilst our supports'were organising a counter-at-'taek* pur ; gunners put up a fierce barrage, driving tlie'cnemy to cover. As a' result wo took the whole of the trenches. the Germans had carried. It was- a very straggling remnant. of • the original storming companies which got back across no man’s land. THE ! CAMBRBAI WITHDRAWAL. BYNG’S MISTAKE. CAVALRY NOT PROPERLY UTILISED. SITUATION SAVED BY GUARDSw;;, MEN. i. . . ' I Received/10.45. PARIS, Jan 2. Marcel Hu’tin, the expept French commutator-/ in the Echo de Paris, says the -lesson at Cambrai lias been the greatest lesson to the British command. Ludendorff has now been forced to admit that the famous storming troops from Hanover, Brunswick, and the Rhine provinces were compelled to relinquish most of the ground they had taken. The chief mistake of General Byng’s attack was that the cavalry did not intervene in time to push home the preliminary success. Later, British guardsmen •held their own against th e whole German army and, unaided, freed a groat number of prisoners, and recaptured most of tho guns land all the tanks left behind in the ■withdrawal.